Emollient, with Mike Smith riding, cruises to victory over Summer Applause in the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes on Sunday.

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For the 3-year-old filly Emollient, making the break had been the make-or-break factor in her recent races. And Sunday's $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster certainly was an unfortunate time to get out of the gate lackadaisically, given that her owner is the Grade I stakes' sponsor.

But Juddmonte finally got to present the trophy to itself, as Emollient stormed from last midway on the far turn for a 1¼-length victory over Summer Applause at rain-soaked Keeneland. In the process, Emollient became only the fourth horse to win Keeneland's Ashland for 3-year-old fillies and beat older fillies and ...